When her daughter turned five, Chris Hauer thought, “Well, we could do one year of homeschool. We’re doing okay at preschool, we could probably handle kindergarten.” But she knew they needed to find some friends, so she found a homeschool group, the Helena Homeschool Enrichment Co-op. Little did she know where that would lead.
“I showed up the first week, and there was a teacher for the kindergarteners. I showed up the second week, and there wasn’t,” she recalls. “So I taught that week. And every week after that.” She got more and more invol